Paper-Currency

The movement claim that Willard v. Tayloe, 75 U.S. 557 (1869), establishes federal paper-currency authority as limited to the District of Columbia is unsupported

The movement reads Willard v. Tayloe (1869) for the proposition that federal paper-currency authority is limited to the District of Columbia. The actual decision is a contract case about specific performance and the medium of payment — it does not address congressional currency power as a geographic question at all.